One of the classic problems in industrial engineering is the buffer allocation
problem. The objective of the buffer allocation problem is to maximize some line
output, typically throughput, through the allocation of buffers throughout the
production line. Previous work in this area has focused on either determining
general design rules...
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Satellite-derived sea surface salinity (SSS) data from Aquarius and SMOS are used to study the
shelf-open ocean exchanges in the western South Atlantic near 35°S. Away from the tropics, these
exchanges cause the largest SSS variability throughout the South Atlantic. The data reveal a well-defined
seasonal pattern of SSS during...
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Trichodesmium, a major colonial cyanobacterial nitrogen fixer, forms large blooms in NO₃-depleted tropical oceans and enhances CO₂ sequestration by the ocean due to its ability to fix dissolved dinitrogen. Thus, its importance in C and N cycles requires better estimates of its distribution at basin to global scales. However, existing...
This book is based on a project to completely annotate what is known about the function of the ~150 genes encoded by the genome of the most commonly investigated baculovirus, AcMNPV. Once the annotation was completed (summarized in Chapter 11), the material was organized into a series of chapters integrating...
Resilient interdependent critical infrastructures (CIs) can better withstand cascading failures in disruptive events. This study proposes network expansion as a resilience improvement strategy for interdependent CIs and evaluates the influence of topology in interdependent network design for resilience optimization under disruption uncertainty. A resilience score consisting of network complexity and...